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This is a timeline that highlights Fil Fraser's many accomplishments. He was very successful in the radio and film world, expecially in the prariers. He was the first Black person to become a radio host and had many other first throughout his life.…

Canadian novelist and scholar Cecil Foster published his book on sleeping car porters in 2019, 'They Call Me George'. In chapter three, "'Did you ring sir?': Modern Luxury and Black Labour", Foster describes what it was like to work as a sleeping car…

A plaque commemorating the Webster-Ashburton Treaty at the old State Department building in Washington, D.C. where the signing took place.

Webster-Ashburton Treaty Ratification, 9 August 1842

Black and White Picture of the Union United Church in 1958

The research report studies the after-effects of racial trauma, how that changes lifestyles, and how to identify racial trauma and the subsequent stress. All while accounting for population growth.

Sikh men aboard the Komagata Maru, an immigration boat, heading for Canada.

The name Little Burgundy (St. Antoine District) only became a recognized neighbourhood name in the 1960s, when city officials used it to label an ambitious urban renewal project. For decades, the community had been heavily dependent on railway…